Richard T. Rogers, Emeritus Professor

My number one interest is to provide the highest quality teaching available anywhere at any price. I am an advocate of affordable education that allows students to gain access to society's best jobs. I sincerely believe quality education expands opportunities allowing training and ability to replace privilege in determining who gets ahead in this world.

My second interest is to produce useful public research that would not be done in the private sector. As a public educator, I realize it is my research that creates and maintains my professional reputation in my field and reassures students that they are learning from a recognized scholar. My general research is in the area of markets and their ability to solve society's fundamental economic problem. More specifically, my research focuses on the industrial economics of food manufacturing and cooperatives.

Rogers, Richard T. 1997. "The Role of Cooperatives in Increasingly Concentrated Markets, in Proceedings of a symposium on Cooperatives: Their Importance in the Future Food and Agricultural System", eds. Cook, Torgerson, Sporleder, and Padberg, sponsored by National Council of Farmers Cooperatives and the Food and Agricultural Marketing Consortium.

Recent Activities

After my stay in the Provost’s Office, I took a sabbatical leave to Italy from March to August 2009. I will now return to teaching and research in the Department of Resource Economics, which has been moved to the Isenberg School of Management. I am looking forward to our new home within our UMass family.